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Quote by Eric Hoffer
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. – Eric Hoffer

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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. – Eric Hoffer

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Future
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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. – Eric Hoffer

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Hope
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. – Eric Hoffer

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Minorities
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I think its child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, its at the cost of someones natural development. Its already hard enough to develop. – Alanis Morissette

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power

If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. – Howard Zinn

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I think every individual has his or her own power, and its a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is. – Jill Scott

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If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. – Julius Caesar

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We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. – Emile M. Cioran

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In confession… we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who loves us in spite of what we are. – Louis Cassels

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The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. Its not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me. – Dhani Harrison

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Such religion is Churchianity; it is not Christianity. Christianity means the religion where Christ is all; Churchianity, the religion where the Church is all. – John Cumming, “Salvation,” sermon preached before the Queen, 1850 September 22nd

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